VOL TWENTY-SIX " " FABMVILLK. PITT COUNTY NOBTH CABOUNA, FBIpXY, PEBBLY %1M7. NUMBER THIBTY-TBItVB
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M. G. Mann Addresses
Pitt County Farmers
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Urge Growers of Princi
pal Crops to Co-oper
ate in Controlling Price
and Production
Greenville, Feb. 23.?The one-third
of the American people who live on
the farm receive only one-tenth of
the Nation's income, M. G. Mann,
general manager of the State's two
largest farm co-operatives declared
here today, as he stressed the neces
sity for farmers "to co-operate in
order to receive what is rightfully
theirs."
"The only hope for our farmers to
receive their true share of the Na
tion's income," he declared, "is for
them to organize and through co
operative marketing receive the high
dollar for the products they have for
sale, and through co-operative pur
chasing accure, at a reasonable mar
gin and of a known quality, the sup
plies they have to buy."
Mr. Mann, who is general manager
of the Fanners Cooperative Exchange
and of the N. C. Cotton Growers Co
operative Association, which was
held jointly in the Greenville Court
House here Tuesday.
In the morning of the same day
at 10:30 A. M., Mr. Mann addressed
a similar meeting in the Ayden Com
munity Building.
Declaring that "we are making
progress, but slowly," Mr. Mann
pointed to the increasing interest of
farmers in working together. "Today
there are some 10,500 farm co-opera
tive purchasing and marketing as
sociations in the United States, to
say nothing of the co-operative Pro
duction Credit Associations," Mr.
Mann said.
He pointed out that during the
brief span of time the co-operative
idea has been in practice in America
it has sddenly gained in favor, until
today approximately 20% of the prod
ucts sold from the farm are market- j
ed co-operatively, while 12% of the J
farm supplies are purchased co-1
operatively.
Turning to the Farmers Coopera
tive Exchange, he declared that the
sole reason for its organization was
to aid farmers in obtaining open
formula fertilizers and feed manu
factured according to formulas rec
ommended by authorities at State
College and to assist farmers in ob
taining seed of known origin.
"It is neither the aim nor the intent
of the FCP to put any manufacturer
or mervchant out of business," Mr.
Mann declared, "but it does seek to
regulate the margin of profit and
the quality of goods sold.
"The FCX sells for cash only and
when a farmer is willing, like any
other business man, to go to his local
bank or his Production Credit Asso
ciatioh and secure operating capital
he has a right to expect to purchase
at a smaller margin of profit than the
man who insists on buying on a credit
basis and continuing to give crop
liens and chattel mortgages." ?
He declared that farmers of the
State should take a pardonable pride
in the fact that during its first thirty
months of operation their own orga
nization has done a business of more
than $4,000,000 and has forged ahead
until it is one of the 29 purchasing
co-operatives in the Nation now doing
a business of more than a million
dollars annually.
Recounting how the FCX was with
out one dollar of capital stock Mr.
Mann said that through subscriptions
of stock by farmers themselves and
savings made through large-scale
group purchasing the FCX has built
up a capital and undistributed proft
in excess of $43,000. As the great
est compliment that has come to
farmers who ? Save made the FCX
possible, he cited the fact that local
banks and the bank for co-operatives
have granted it a line of credit oi
$200,000.
He plead with listeners to staci
by their own organization and pur
chase at least a part of their sup
plies co-operatively in order that th<
FCX. may have a sufficient volum<
to carry on and to continue its ser
tn Pitt Countv farmers.
Turning: to cotton and the Cotton
Association, Mr. Mann expressed fear
that acreage would be increased this
year and urged every fanner who
wants a profit from his cotton to
plant only the best seed possible in
order that he may produce a staple
that will demand a premium when
it is sold.
He fully explained the operation
of the Cotton Association, which is
now in its fifteenth year of service
and pointed to the confidence placed
in it by the banks of the state which
now lend it millions of dollars an
nually at the lowest interest rate
in its history.
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rated two yean ago, enables any far
mer to know as much about the true
value of his cotton as the man who
is buying it, Mr. Mann pointed out.
All cotton handled through the Cet
tou Association is graded under the
supervision of a government licensed
ilawer and the fanner is noticed of
its few grade end etaple, along with
the value of the cotton, but the "Re
Purchase Pool" goes a step further
and provides that the delivering far
mer may ask for prices elsewhere
and if he is offered more for his
cotton on the outside than he is
quoted by the co-operative, he can
get it back and sell it to the one
offering the most money.
"Truly, the Re-Purchase Pool plan
guarantees farmers who use it the
Ugh dollar for their cotton crop,"
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M. G. Mann of Raleigh, General
Manager of the State's two largest
farm cooperatives addressed a meet
ing of farmers in Greenville, Tuesday,
February 23rd, at 2:00 p. m.
Propose Levy
Franchise Tai
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Proposal Allows Cities
To Tax Telephone Ex
changes
Greenville, Feb. 24.?Although a
state law at present prohibits cities
from levying a franchise tax on
telephone exchanges, a measure in
troduced in the Senate yesterday by
Senator E. G. Flanagan and others
would permit such a privilege.
The proposed measure is attracting
much atention in Greenville as the
Carolina Telephone company at pres
ent is negotiating with the Board of
Aldermen in regard to renewal of its
franchise, which expired three years
ago.
The state levies a six per cent tax
| on the gross incomes of the various
I telephone companies operating in
I North Carolina, but bans any towns
I from placing such a tax on the com
panies. The proposal would allow
cities in which exchanges are located
to levy a one per cent gross income
tax.
Asheville collects such a tax under
a franchise issued some years ago to
the Southern Bell Company and
Hickory levies the assessment under
the local law passed by the General
Assembly, Senator Flanagan declared
in offering his measure.
The bill was referred to the Com
mittee on Public Utilities and a pub
lic hearing was set for Friday morn
ing at ten o'clock in the offices of
the State Utilities commission,
i Although the measure is expected
to encounter stiff opposition from
the telephone companies, it has the
support of the League of Municipali
ties, the legislative committee of
which met yesterday and discussed
the bill. Mayor M. K. Blount is a
member of the committee and de
clared that the entire committee per
sonnel was behind the proposal
whereby the cities could collect a
franchise tax from the telephone
companies.
WHO KNOWS?
1. What was the cost of t?e new
Supreme Court building?
2. How many national banks have
failed in the last year?
3. What is meant by the Great
Plains area?
4. How many Indians are there in
the United States?
5. Is there a Buddhist temple in
the United States?
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b. W nai IS me nigneoi, apcvu Ui
\ wind?
7. What proportion of farmers in
the United States own their land?
8. What was the Dred Scott decis
ion?
9. Is basketball played in China ?
10. What is the meaning of the
1 phrase "ad valorem"?
(See Answers on Page Four)
SHOOTS SELF TO AVOID
FREEZING TO DEATH
Carson City, Nev.?Leaving his
wife and 2-year-old daughter in their
snow-bound automobile, Earl la Near,
went in search of aid. His body was
found ten days later and evidence
points to the fact that he shot him
self to avoid death by freezing and
exhaustion. His wife and child were
rescued after spending nine days in
their automobile.
National
Defense
(Presented at A. L. A. Meeting)
February, with its patriotic holi
day?22nd?Washington's birthday?
the birthday of the Father of our
country?has been very appropriate
ly designed as the month for em
phasis on National Defense and
Americanism, by the American Le
gion Auxiliary.
What is National Defense? When
we speak the words we think first
of all of armies and navies, but there
is more included in "National De
fense" than militarism, as we shall
see in pursuing this study. When
rightly understood the expression
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It captures the spirit of adventure in
youth, and inspires heroic visions for
the future. It stirs the patriotic im
pulses of those in the prime of life,
and translates ideals into protection
pf home and native land. It thrills
j the aged and brings forth epic tales
of battles fought and victories won
in the name of American valor.
What is National Defense ? Mr.
Webster says defense means, "act
of defending; state of being defend
ed; that which defends or protects;
guard; art or skill in making de
fense." Of course you all know that
the word "national" relates to the
nation. So National Defense means
guarding or protecting the nation.
Anything which has a tendency to
under-mine or overthrow our govern
ment is not guarding anil protecting
our nation. But, says one, does not
the United States Government pro
tect and defend the nation? Yes,
but under our present 1 .vs the gov
ernment can take action only when
extreme violence is attempted.
I beard a very fine address some
years ago, and I shall never forget
one of the illustrations the speaker
used to show how seemingly small
things can undermine and finally
overthrow. He said there was once
a very fine old chair in which some
little white ants took up their abode.
For a long time they were un-noticed,
but they were eating away, until
I finally one day the fne old chair col
lapsed. Friends, are not the Com
munists, Pacifists, Atheists, and
others working like those little ants
and termites to undermine and over
throw our Government and our na
tion?
The chief objective of the so-called
radical activities in this country is
j to over-throw constitutional govern
ment, and they have various methods
of doing so. First, they plan the
destruction of the home; second, the
destruction of religion; third, the
rla<r+inis>H/\n <vf nnfa'nnftl patriotism;
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and foruth, the destruction of nation
al defense.
They are very wise in planning the
destruction of the home, for the home
is the foundation of property owner
ship, and for that reason is antago
nistic to the theories of both Social
ism and Communism. The destruc
tion of the home is to be accomplish
ed through breaking down the mar
riage relation; through laxity in mar
riage and divorce laws; through ad
vocacy of free love; through promo
tion of immoral literature, plays,
and motion pictures and through
teaching children diisrespect for their
parents, teachers, and all others in
authority. With the exception of
extremely immoral plays and motion
pictures in violation of State laws,
and with the exception of sending
very immoral literature through the
U. S. mails, those in favor of wreck
ing the home can agitate for corn
nan innate marriage and for weaken
ing marriage and divorce laws, and
realize that the Government it power
less to prevent it.
Coordinating with the home, re
ligion is the greatest stabilizing in
fluence in the country, and it is
natural that the radical should
choose the destruction of religion
as his second minor objective. This
is to be accomplished by prohibiting
the use of the Bible, the Lord's
Prayer, or other religious instruc
tion in schools and colleges; by cre
ating and supporting dissensions
among the various branches of the
hv cmitinr organizations
Tor the propagation of Atheism. The j
Constitution of the United States ,
assures to every citizen the right to j
worship God according to the dictates
of his own conscience. That for j
which our forefathers fought and <
died?religious liberty; therefore ,
while Government officials realise
that the spread of Atheism and the ,
abolition of religion will utimately
have a very bad effect upon the
stability of our country, yet the
Government is poweress to act
It is said that Alexander the
Great always took with him a copy
of Homer, and as long as be did
this he was victorious. As long as
the. Grades had the Status of Pallas
for. their inspiration, they too wars
victorious; and as long as the homes,
schools and churches of America
keep, the Holy Bible, America's
Palladium, upon their altars,
America will be victorious, and con
tinue-to bess the world. But the
Atheists would have us discard God's
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Senate Votes
Te Keep Levy
In All Meets
Revenue Bill Passed On
Final Reading by Vote
of 41-3; Senate on Way
To Conference
Raleigh, Flab. 24.?Senators refus
ed again today to take the sales tax
off meals in public eating places and
then passed the biennial revenue
bill and sent it to the house for con
currence in amendments.
The senate finance chaiman, Webb
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reject senate charges and require a
conference to iron out differences.
Final passage was by a 41-3 vote,
with Senators Brok of Davie, Long of
Halifax and Ewing of Cumberland,
opposing the measures designed to
raise $76,000,000 for the general fund
during the 1937-3$ biennium.
The senators debated for more
than an hour after Senator Johnston
of Buncombe renewed this motion to
strike out the tax on meals, and then
refused 25 to 21 to do so.
Gold of Guilford said "the director
of the budget (Governor Hoey) has
business and political desires to take
the tax off meals" and other senators
argued the Democratic party had
pledged removal of the present three
per cent levy.
Ingram of Randolph, Hill of Dur
ham and others, however, argued the
party had also pledged the removal
of the sales tax from all necessities
of life and had left it on many of
them.
House members worked out various
committee reports for more than 70
bills to the legislative floors for ac
tion.
Miss Larson Speaks
Second Public Forom
On Tuesday night, February 23,
at 8:00 o'clock the second Public
Forum was held in the high school
auditorium. Miss Elsie Larson, who
is on leave of absence from her wofk
with the Rockefeller Foundation to
meet with forum groups, led the dis
cussion in "Mental Hygiene," Miss
Larson had as her subject "Mental
Hygiene, a community Problem."
Since the forum work was begun,]
Miss Larson has led thirteen groups
and has spoken at a number of
special meetings. Everywhere the
li?? Koon favorable, and
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here the meeting proved quite suc
cessful.
In her duscussion Miss Larson, with
particular reference to North Caro
lina's institutions for and care of
those who are mentally ill, gave the
history of her subject She also
reviewed some of the recommenda
tions made to North Carolina for a
more efficient operation of the sys
tem which has control of the care of
the mentally ill.
Of particular interest was that part
of her discussion which dealt with
community problems and preventive
measures. In connection with the
community problems Miss Larson
discussed for the group the child as
a part of the family. She called to
attention personality and intellectural
differences and adjustments neces
sary for mental health and happiness.
Included in this was a discussion of
invenile ronrta anrf the URP of train
ing schools as corrective resorts. In
her discussion of preventive measures
the forum leader mentioned psychia
tric clinics and leisure time activities.
This discussion of mental hygiene
as a way of thinking and living, was
very enlightening, and Miss Larson's
treatment of her subject was most
interesting.
At the conclusion of the speech the
meeting was, customarily, opened for
questions on and discussions qf any
field of the subject in which those of
the audience might be interested
These public forums will be con
tinued through June, and it is heart
ily urged that all citizens of Farm
idlle attend, for they are proving both
instructive and interesting.
A list of topics and speakers for
Forum units which has been selected
For this distict, will be published in
these columns next week, and any
preferences by citizens should be in
dicated and turned in to the Advisory
Board, of which Superintendent J.
H. Moore is a member.
BAINS MOLASSES
Atchison, Kan.?It rained molaasea
the other day when an employe of a
mumfM^hiy company twtf* the
wrong valve, causing steam pressure
to spray molasses from a pipe on
the roof. Houses and streets for
blocks were covered.
Five Nash County farmers have
agreed to run five-year crop rota
tions on thair and to keen
records on the results.
c.
Washington
Farm News
Precarious farming
3,000,000 tenants
1,500,000 mortgages
seeking a remedy
low living scale
For many years the idea has been
prevalent in the United States that
the backbone of the country was
made up of contented agricultural
families, living a life of liberty and
independence on land which they
worked for a livelihood. Today, the
records show that only one-fourth of
the farmers of the nation hold unen
cumbered titles to the land they tin.
Half of our farmers are tenants and
half of those listed as owners of land
retain possession under the threat of
foreclosure if they fail to meet pay
ments coming due. Just when the
change occurred, no one can say, but
that it was accelerated during the
twenties is not disputed.
Last week President Roosevelt call
ed for a nationwide program, under
Federal leadership and with the as
sistance of states, counties, communi
ties an individuals, to do something to
restore the security of individual
farm ownership. Callng attention to
the increase in the number of new
tenants for the past ten years, about
40,000 a year, the President pointed
out that many owners have been slip
ping ino the tenant class and that
hundreds of thousands considered
owners are as insecure as tenants be
cause they own, on the average, only
forty-two per cent, of their farm land
and, in some of our best farming sec
tions including some of the states
settled under the homestead system
a little more than a generation ago,
as little as one-fifth.
hfr. Roosevelt submitted to Con
gress the report of $ committee which
had beep appointed several months
ego to study the problem and recom
mend effective remedial measures,
Secretary Wallace and congressional
leaders have been studying the
problem for some time and hearings
have been conducted for several
weeks on the $500,000,000 tenanted
bill proposed by Chairman Jonea of
the House Agricultural Committee
and Senator Bankhead of Alabama,
The President's committee proposes
to check speculation in land by a
special tax to take a large percentage
of profits from sales of land made
within three yeaft after Its purchase.
The idea is to stop the process by
which many American farmers have
gone into debt to buy more land
during periods of high prices only to
lose all their holdings when depres
sion knocks the props from land
vaues. This }s the most revolutionary
suggestion made, as most of the oth
ers relate to matters already discuss
ed. The Government Is urged to pur
chase good farm land, for sale on lib
eral terms to selected tenants, to make
loans to prevent small farm owners
i?a)nor tKpfr land. and to CO
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operate with the States in the pur
chase of about 100,000,000 acres of
poor crop land, to be retired from
crop use, Stnte legislation is also
urged to improve the leasing system
and to encourage tenants to take care
of lands and provide proper compen
sation for improvements and to im
prove living quarters of itinerant
farm laborers. There would be cre
ated a Farm Security Administration
to handle the Federal program.
The committee reported that "rural
civilization is threatened with deca
dence" and urged that steps be taken
to safeguard civil liberties of ten
ants. The report mentioned that the
Federal Reserve Board and the Farm
"The extreme poverty of one-fifth <
to one-foorth of the farm population 1
reflects itself in a standard of living 1
below any level of decenecy," the re
port said. "In many areas, particular
ly in the South, families are living in
conditions of poverty, little if any
above the lowest peasantry of Eur- 1
ope."
The Eskimo population is decreas
ing.
Still Firm Dttt
Gnt By$680,3H
Resettlement Has Aided
745 Farmers Owning
94,379 Acres, Report
Shows
Washington, Feb. 24.?A total of
49,344 debt-ridden farmers through
out the country have been aided
through the farm debt adjustment
services of the Resettlement Admin
istration in the 17 months ended Jan
uary 31, C. B. Baldwin, acting ad
ministrator announced today. In a
great many of these cases fore
closures or forced sales were pre
vented, he said. North Carolina
'showed in this program to a very
large extent.
Analyzing the latest figures ob
tainable, Mr. Baldwin disclosed that
farm debts amounting to $160,054,737
have been reduced to $119,054,716
through efforts of the voluntary farm
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aeDC aajusimenc commiiiees wont-1
ing under Resettlement Administra-1
tion supervision. In addition to the
principal reduction amounting to
over $41,000,000, or 25.6 per cent,
adjustments were made through a
reduction in the rate of interest or
an extension of time in which debts
could be repaid.
"Our records show that on Febru
ary, 1, 24,500 debt adjustment cases
were pending, Indicating that the
work will gq forward vigorously fn
the coming months,
Mr, Baldwin said that as a result
of 1? months of farm debt adjust
ment work a total of $2,924,640 in
back taxes has been paid to local
governments.
The record for North Carolina
shows that the cases of 746 farmers
owning 94,379 acres of land were
voluntarily adjusted during the 17
month period, with the debts re
duced from $2,344,800 to $1,655,433, a
reduction of $689,377. The adjust
ments resulting in payment of $65,
399 in local taxes,
On February 1 there were 824
cases still pending in North Caro
lina,
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Mountain farmers say the $20 al- I
lowance for small farms under the i
1937 farm program will give them a i
better chance to improve their farms i
than under the 1936 program. I
Credit Administration "were well |
aware of the angers" of widespread |
land speculation and were in position <
to do something about it, but felt that (
further restraint was needed, and :
therefore, proposed the windfall tax on (
the sale of land within three years of
being acquired by the seller. The re- j
port went into every phase of the j
tenancy problem, and the moral, men- ,
tal, physical, social and economic re- ,
suits of the farming system, particu- .
larly that of the South. j
Tobacco Compact Bill
Tied To Court Proposal
Governor Rivers and
Others Think Com
pact Legislation Is
Dead So Far As Geor
gia Is Concerned
Raleigh, Feb. 24.?It may seem a
far cry, but to many the fate of to
bacco compacts legislation and tobac
co control in general now appears to
be all bound up with President Roose
velt's proposal to increase the Su- '
preme Court membership from nine
to fifteen.
This comes about from the fact
that there now seems to be no earthly
chance for cooperation between the
tobacco-growing states in compact
legislation and from the further fact
that the Supreme court as presidency
instituted has already ruled that the
Federal government ?o proper
sphere of action in the premises.
Henre it nnw nnnpard that unlpiu
there is reorganiizaton of the court,
there will be no chance for federal
legislation which would stand up, and
it further appears that there must be
Federal legislation or there will be no
tobacco control.
Inasmuch as most farm experts are
agreed that there must be tobacco '
control or the farmers will face ruin,
Jiere seems to be every incentive for
;he tobacco farmers to get vigorously
>ehind President Roosevelt in his
push to overturn the old judicial or
ier which has so effectively blocked
;very effort to enact legislation real
ly beneficial to the farmers.
When North Carolina's legislature
:onvened in January chances for leg
slation by this state, Virginia, South
Carolina and Georgia seemed to hinge
argely upon the willingness of North
Carolina to participate and co-oper
ite.
But strange to relate, the three
lorthern states of the four needed for
:ooperation came through in fine
style only to have Georgia block the ,
whole project. Of course the Cracker
state's law makers are still in ses
:inri onil thoro in a "hiniv
that they will finally fall in line for
:obacco control, but Governor Ed Riv
ers and othere, who ought to know,
lave announced their belief that com
pact legislation is dead so far as
Georgia is concerned.
There appears to be only one really
/alid reason for this state of affaire,
hat is the threat of Florida to enter
he tobacco-growing field on a large
scale. Georgia growers have been
scared out of their wits by these
threats.
Of course there are reports that 1
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad has
jeen fighting against compact laws in
Georgia, but these reports have been
afficially denied and there is small
reason to think that these efforts,
even if made, were decisive.
The weak point of compact legis
lation by states lies in the invitation
It holds out to other states, previously
now; in the tobacco-growing class, to
get into the business on a large scale
wherever the soil permits. No matter
bow many states join in the compacts
Khero will nlwnvR he one or mora bor
der states which will immediately
throw everything out of kilter by en
try into the growing of tohacco.
And so it seems clear that there
must be something in the nature of
federal legislation. North Carolina
farm leaders have not yet conceded
that there is no chance of state com
pacts, and therefore have made no
announcement of the course they will;,
follow when the chance fades. They
will soon be faced with that failure
all signs indicate. Then they will be
forced to get behind a plan to reor
ganize the federal judiciary ao that
Laws like the- AAA will have a chance
to be declared valid.
RELIEF FUND
REACHES $691
The local Red Cross fund for the '?
relief of flood sufferers, was in
creased this week. With a quota of
$200 Farmville went over the top the
first day after the call was sounded,
and the total to date is $601.36.
The campaign for funds is not bo
active but contributors continue to
do their bit and make donations,
which are desperately nde^ed in the
flooded areas, as the first estimate of
rehabilitation was found to be far
short of what win be actually need
ed.
Contributions received since the
list was printed are as follows:
Paramount Theatre $6.00
Marcellus Smith ?... ;? 6.90
Young Woman's Circle Meth
odist Church 6.90 * V
S. T. Lewis 2J?0 '
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Gates 8.00
Donations in boxes at
stations 6.20
Miss Alice Dale . 1j00
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WILL JUSTIFY BUILDING
Buffalo.?Built 10 yean ago over
dry land, a bridge will soon have
water flowing under it when -a reeefr
is diverted as a flood pioionHn
measure.
Uniforms For lobbyists
Called For By Proposal
Raleigh, Feb. 24.?Judge F. H.
Brooks, in a moment of levity, has
introduced a bill which if enacted
would bring thousands of persons to
Raleigh during the legislative session
just to see the show.
His measure calls for uniforms for
lobbyists and prescribes certain cere
monies they must observe in ap
proaching a Senator.
Here's what could be seen if the
bill weer to become a law:
(1) Murray Allen (Railroad Lobby
ist) wearing1 overalls, carrying an oil
can, switch lanten and wearing his
hat backwards.
JTrtVn Slrinnsr. secretary of
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the N. C. Association of county com
missi oners and Pat Healy, ditto for
the Municipal League (Tax Lobby
ists) carrying picks and hods on their
hacks.
(3) Dr. Frank Graham, president i
of the University of North Carolina,
and Charlie Woolen (University Lob
byists) wearing coat ,and gown coon
skin coats, smoking long pipes and
carrying canes with ribbons on them.
(4) Grady Rankin, general counsel
for Duke.-, power company (Public
Utilities Lobbyist) canning a water
faucet in one hand and a hand teel
phone set in the ether;
' < (6) Paul Brown, secretary of the
N. C. Association of Bankers (Bank
Lobbyist) wearing an old gold uni
form and having a glass eye.
(6) John Umstead, counsel for the
Jefferson Standard Life (Insurance
Lobbyist) wearing rubber coat, high
boots and a fireman's bonnet.
(7) Fred Bowman, counsel for the
N. C. Pharmaceutical Association
(Pharmacist Lobbyist) wearing a
white uniform and carrying a tray
of lettuce sandwiches.
(8) Dr. B. J. Lawrence (Medical
Lobbyist) wearing an interne's uni
form stamped with skull and cross
bones and carrying a stethoscope arid
bottle of smelling salts.
(9) Cale K. Bugess (Liquor Lob
byist) wearing a large white apron
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ana noops, resemming a Deer oarrei,
carrying liquor at least 15 years old.
(10) Malcolm McQueen, former
Senator (Slot Machine Lobbyist)
wearing a pea-green suit and carry
ing a minature slot machine.
(11) Dick Fountain (Pyrotechnic
Lobbyist) wearing a solid red suit
with red cap and white horns (to re
semble the figure on can of Red Devil
lye) and wearing a package of fire
crackers on a watch fob.
These persons are not named by
name in the bill, but they are cited
herein as izamples of the type of lob
byist for whom these uniforms are
prescribed in Judge Brooks' miasurs.